INNOVATION May-June 2017

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2017 Project Highlights

A triple-port upgrade decentralizes operations in the Bahamas

(343,000-square-kilometre) maritime domain to enhance safety and security at sea and on the Bahamas’ 700 islands and cays. The Government’s Sandy Bottom Project Execution Unit consisted of RBDF and ministry personnel. Damen Shipyards/Van Oord (Netherlands) served as design–build contractor. JV Paul Hanna & Associates (Bahamas) and Rendel (UK) was the employer’s representative engineer. APEGBC member: Henry Moxey, P.Eng. (project liaison officer between the Government of the Bahamas, the contractor and the engineer) transfer operations, reduced the installation time during shutdowns, lowered the potential for dust generation and product degradation, and decreased mechanical complexity. Although construction took place in an operating terminal, site-construction labour hours and operational disruptions were minimized. The CSI team successfully completed the project without lost-time incidents. APEGBC members, CWA Engineers Inc.: Craig Stenhouse, P.Eng., Paul Dunwoody, P.Eng., Elvin Yutuc, P.Eng., Keith Arnstead, P.Eng. In addition, the project creates three hectares of container storage space, revamps the rail-loading facilities and adds three more quay cranes. Fairview Container Terminal is already an economic anchor for the local community, and this project resulted in more than $40 million in local spending. The project team included a dozen APEGBC members full-time onsite, with many more in supporting roles. DP World Prince Rupert (operator), Herold Engineering (Engineer of Record), CGR Canada (engineer), FRPD-Bel Gateway JV (contractor)

The Sandy Bottom Project represents the single largest capital investment the Government of the Bahamas, Ministry of National Security, has made in the Royal Bahamas Defence Force (RBDF) since its inception in 1980. The $232-million project includes the design and construction of nine naval vessels and three island port upgrades—including harbour dredging, breakwaters, revetments, quay walls, jetties, 0.73-hectare land reclamation, support buildings and infrastructure. The upgrades decentralize operations and logistic support across the Bahamas’ 100,000-square-nautical-mile Pacific Coast Terminals is integrating K+S Potash Canada’s potash handling system into its existing Port Moody sulphur terminal. The project required modifications to two sulphur conveyors to prevent cross-contamination on the ship-loading conveyor. CWA Systems Inc. (CSI), a CWA Group company, developed a diverter system and executed the project under an engineering–procurement– construction contract. By implementing a lower profile (20 percent of the originally proposed system), CSI minimized the risk to existing sulphur- The Port of Prince Rupert’s Fairview Container Terminal opened in 2007, becoming one of North America’s fastest-growing intermodal gateways and the first fully dedicated ship-to-rail facility. In 2013, planning began for the facility’s Phase II North expansion to increase annual capacity to 1.35 million TEUs (20-foot equivalent units, each of which equals about 38.5 m 3 ) at completion in 2017 . The $200-million project increases the berth to 800 metres, long enough to accommodate two of the largest trans- Pacific container vessels simultaneously.

Sulphur terminal upgrades reduce risk

Port expansion increases berth and storage capacity

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